Graydon Carter has such a hard on right now, as Vanity Fair releases its most Vanity Fair-esque piece to date on the defrauded, jet-setting Raffaello Follieri. What makes the seven-page article so perfectly VF, with its mix of celebrity and scandal and a dash of eau de creep?
We admit to loving Anne Hathaway, but the quotes she gave about Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention were a little bizarre. ("I was afraid to trust him. … I can't deny how I feel about you, Barack Obama.") Does she know that running for public office is not the same as attempting to be her next boyfriend?
You know why employees shouldn’t keep blogs? Because inevitably their employers will find them, read them, and use them against their underlings. It’s the same reasoning why starlets shouldn’t keep diaries: Because federal officials might raid the home of your scandal-plagued ex-boyfriend, confiscate your journals, and then use your words to prosecute him for fraud. Such is the new saga for Anne Hathaway.
A nosy Village Voice scribe stumbled across a large bundle of Miramax head Harvey Weinstein's garbage whilst in Tribeca the other night, and then he wrote about it for his paper. Besides making it abundantly clear that few scripts pass muster with the notoriously prickly and prickish Weinstein, the refuse also revealed that the mogul is quite a difficult man to get on the phone. After the jump, Harv's "need to call" list.
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Donald Trump always likes a good feud, especially when the matter at hand has absolutely nothing to do with him. His latest victim is Anne Hathaway, who we imagine has enough to deal with at the moment. Evidently Donald is offended by Anne's lack of loyalty to con artist Raffaello Follieri (who spent the majority of his weasel-y time holed up in one of Trump's residential buildings), and he's telling everyone about it:
She hasn't remained very loyal to him, has she? So when he had plenty of money, she liked him, but then after that, not as good, right?
Well, you would know all about women only liking men for money, wouldn't you, Donald?
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• Guess who's back — and going to Hollywood. [DListed]
• New York City is aiming to have every resident in the Bronx tested for HIV. Good luck with that. [ABC]
• Someone needs to program the Posh robot to clean up after herself. [INO]
• According to Kimora Lee Simmons, being a fabulous mother demands $480,000 in child support. [ICYDK]
• Poor little Raffaello: Anne Hathaway's ex has to spend his birthday behind bars instead of jetting away to Italy. [Us]
GOOD TIMING "Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was hospitalized for a severe sinus infection following his New York court appearance on fraud and money laundering charges, his rep tells People."
It’s not that Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri is a con artist. It’s that he’s a bad con-artist. How to tell? He was arrested! That’s sort of the biggest criteria for finding out if a con artist is bad at his game. The second piece of criteria? Going to prison, which is where it sounds like he’s headed.
Raffaello Follieri, former boyfriend of Anne Hathaway and a scumbag who really looks the part, was arrested this morning in New York City on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering. Allegedly, Follieri lied to an investor about being the chief financial officer of the Vatican.
In April, Follieri was arrested for writing a $250,000 bad check, but the charge was ultimately dropped. These new charges probably won't stick either. Because rich pricks always employ lawyers who are smart pricks.
Though she has a new movie out called Get Smart, over the Atlantic, Anne Hathaway is still "the Devil Wears Prada star." But it's also over there that news is breaking that she's split from boyfriend-of-four-years Raffaello Follieri, whose ability to bounce a bad cheque has Ed McMahon jealous.
• Please pass along the memo: Five annoying phrases are being retired from television. [MTV]
• Jessica Alba's brother has the same feelings we do when it comes to babies. [Us]
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are still flaunting their obvious relationship in public, likely to Dina's dismay. [PS]
• A lucky little baby was born with a special present on his back. (Slightly NSFW) [DListed]
• Anne Hathaway on Michael Scott: “Making out with him is like the yummiest lollipop, dipped in sunshine and wrapped in a masculine wrapper! That’s the only way I can think to describe it.” [ICYDK]
• The Democratic presidential nomination process, summed up in eight short minutes. [SH]
• Amy Winehouse's father thinks she should have a baby to stay off the drugs. Because we saw how well caring for another living thing worked out for Pete Doherty and his cats. [DListed]
• It's safe to say Anne Hathaway should probably breakup with her sketchy boyfriend. [TMZ]
• Paris Hilton and her stupid reality show went to Vegas, where we're sure the remaining contestants fit right in amongst the tramps and STDs. [PS]
• File this under Best Idea Ever: Brokeback Mountain will be turned into an opera. [Us]
The MTV Movie Awards were held last night, and I admittedly couldn't bring myself to sit through the hours-long crapfest. Just by looking at the pictures (after the jump), it's obvious I didn't miss much.
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Anne Hathaway's boyfriend of four years, Raffaelo Follieri, was arrested in New York Thursday for bouncing a check worth $250,000.
It's reported Follieri, an Italian property developer, went willingly with police officers to work out the misunderstanding, so there were no handcuffs or loud sirens involved. That spared him of any humiliation until the gossip blogs could get wind of the story.
His lawyers were sorting out the situation and Follieri was released from custody later in the day.
Predictably, nobody cares and Anne still looks like Hollywood's goody two-shoes.
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We hear word that some oddly popular event happened last night in Los Angeles. We're not really sure what it was all about, but we've got pictures of some of the self-congratulatory, insular men and women in attendance after the jump.
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• Are we having fun yet? [DListed]
• The updated bowl cut is the haircut of '08. We love it. [PS]
• Billy Zane and his lady friend recently took a swim. Billy Zane is bald and not trying to hide his head. Kudos to Billy Zane. [HT]
• Jessica Simpson is recording a country album, once again making us thankful we don't listen to nu country. [INO]
• Does a Lancôme ambassador have diplomatic immunity? [ICYDK]
• Recent DUI charge recipient Mischa Barton banned Paris Hilton from a party she was hosting because she doesn't want to be associated with the "party-girl scene." Ha! [Yeeeah]
• We think that's a kid hoisting a champagne flute! Oh, Italy! [CityRag]
• On the Road has turned 50! Apparently that's enough time for all the hipsters to forget that Kerouac was a self-loathing, homophobic racist. [NYT]
• I can believe it. And 63 bill is a fair amount. [DListed]
• McPhee is fake pregnant and scaring her boyfriend. [HT]
• Wanna stink of unyielding effort? [ICYDK]
• Did this guy actually siphon funds from charity? Jesus. The Devil wears whatever he's got on. [DS]
• Evan Rachel Wood still being cutely "shocking." [Yeeeah]
• Now that he's been outed as a botox-drenched faker, can we put an end on all the unfunny "Chuck Norris is so strong…" lists? [CityRag]
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